Joan Allen ,quotes

I think plays deserve other i...

I think plays deserve other interpretations. They should live on, and other people should should take their hand at them. I'm very supportive of that.

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Everything starts with what's...

Everything starts with what's on the page, what a writer has come up with. And whether it is a big studio film or independent film, is the story being well told? Is it interesting? Is the character interesting? And is there something about the character that may stretch me?

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It's important to really list...

It's important to really listen to the other person and have them feel like they're heard, to make sure the relationship feels equal.

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I never liked the bar scene. ...

I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance.

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My favorite thing is to hang ...

My favorite thing is to hang out at my house, be on my beautiful property, prune bushes, take a long walk, build a fire, and read.

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I think there's been a tenden...

I think there's been a tendency to place me in what has been characterised as the 'moral centre' of the film. In films like 'The Ice Storm' and 'The Crucible' and 'Nixon,' that's the sort of the persona that emerged.

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I don't have a political bone...

I don't have a political bone in my body.

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I think ties are great and Ka...

I think ties are great and Kathy Bates is an actress whose work I've admired tremendously over many years, and I feel a certain kinship with her, we both came from an extensive theater background.

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I was a very good girl for a ...

I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

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My favorite way of learning f...

My favorite way of learning for acting has been doing it, not talking about it.

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I thought that I wanted to be...

I thought that I wanted to be a cheerleader because I was one in middle school.

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Almost any film that you do i...

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

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I think of myself more as a c...

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

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I get recognised sometimes. B...

I get recognised sometimes. But I just live my life. I get on the bus, I get on the subway, it's not a problem.

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My mother had very poor heari...

My mother had very poor hearing for many years, until she went basically into - I guess I would call it a psychotic break. She was OK one day, and the next day she was completely cuckoo, violent, paranoid.

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I'm hard to pin down. I tend ...

I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.

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I think the people who cast f...

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

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How do we escape who we are? ...

How do we escape who we are? I think, going to college, I felt freer. I loved the clean slate. I wasn't known as the sort of nerdy, studious girl. I met gay people for the first time in my life. I needed that expansion from a very conservative little town.

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My collaboration with Sally P...

My collaboration with Sally Potter on a small movie, 'Yes,' was very special to me. It helped my growth as an actor.

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I'm not a huge risk taker. I ...

I'm not a huge risk taker. I think that, for me, I take certain kinds of risks, but if you look at me, you wouldn't say I was a big risk taker. I'm not going to jump out of an airplane and parachute and things like that. That's not really me.

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